Hi Joseph,
Take a look at the win32ole project I started on github.com/bpmcd/win32ole
This is a similar effort to your proposition.
On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote:
I really didn't have a major reason for trying to implement this, I
just figured it is something JRuby should have since MRI has it.
I'm also forced to use windows on a regular basis so I have access
to a machine to do the developing on.
In this JIRA ticket (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-191) it
talks about using the Jacob library to implement this. I don't know
enough about FFI to say whether that would work or not. If using
FFI would be better I would be more than happy to try and learn how
to use it. It seems like the lack of WIN32OLE support has not
really held anyone back so I figure it would be a good place to
learn since it obviously isn't a high priority.
Joe
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Vladimir Sizikov
<vsizi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Joseph,
I might be *totally* off the base, so don't pay too much attention to
what I'm going to say ;)
Now that JRuby has great FFI support, my understanding is that one
might implement WIN32OLE purely in ruby.
Like, for example, we implement Win32API.rb (lib\ruby
\1.8\Win32API.rb).
Is there particular reason you're going to implement WIN32OLE in Java?
Thanks,
--Vladimir
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've always wanted to contribute something to JRuby so I was
looking through
> JIRA and noticed that JRuby still does not have the WIN32OLE api,
I thought
> maybe that is something I could try and implement. I quickly
discovered
> that I'm not totally sure how to go about this though. I was
trying to look
> at some of the other ruby standard lib classes that have been
created, but
> I'm hoping I could get a little help here. My two main questions
are about
> the @JRubyMethod annotation and the actual method parameters. It
seems like
> some methods take a ThreadContext object while some don't. Take
for example
> this method from the WIN32OLE class:
>
> WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application') # => WIN32OLE object which
represents
> running Excel.
>
> What would the method signature for that look like? I'm guessing
this would
> be a static Java method, but I'm not sure. Would there just be one
> parameter in the Java code? Would it be an IRubyObject or would
be be a
> RubyString? I looked on the JRuby wiki but I didn't really see
anything
> about this. If there is more information out there you can just
point me in
> that direction. Thanks for any help.
>
> Joe
>
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